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Some talk about the brain being our
spiritual center, or the mind, of the individual and, completely disregarding our digestive systems, consider the heart to be
nothing more than a blood pump. After all, we know that the brain is where the
mind is, don’t we? It is all in the head, we say. But, the reality might be, the
stomach holds a position in the evolutionary hierarchy higher than the brain, or the heart, as
an organ.
Think about our ancient gut instincts; one cell divides into two,
wraps itself around food and excretes it through some sort of reverse osmosis, where is the brain in this? The DNA of our chromosomes organizes that action.
One cell appears to tire of simply dividing to reproduce and evolves into
multiple cell entities. These cells seem to miraculously wrap around each other
into feeding and shitting tubes more sophisticated than wrapping themselves around food, and needing a neural system that is nothing more than a
connection between cells. No longer able to reproduce themselves by simply dividing, they develop primitive sex organs. So, couldn’t this mean that our gut instincts
motivate most of our actions… even before our sex organs? Isn’t it after we get
so damned complex our sex organs show up requiring a neural system organized into a central one? Isn’t this why Darwin
proposed that the brain is nothing more than a tool of our sexual drive to
reproduce ourselves?
Hmmmm…. Could this mean mind is located
in the whole of us and wholeness is the spiritual process of coordinating our
gut instincts with what is between our ears? Isn’t this lack of coordination where most of our
troubles originate? Could our greatest spiritual discipline be to respect our
gut instincts and learn to effectively harmonize this respect with our central
nervous systems? Just wondering… what do you think?
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